[Glorantha] Re: Initiation for heortling women (Carl Fink)

[Roderick and Ellen Robertson]

Sorry bout that last post - hit the rong darn button.

> Passive? She's DEAD before the Dawn.  If they're assuming Ernalda's role,
> new women should experience death and rebirth, more analogous to the
> Lightbringer's Quest than to IFWW.  The mystery would tie into the idea of
> rebirth-and-immortality-through-one's-children.

She's not dead, she's just sleeping. Just ask any Ernalda Cultist. (Shades
of Monty Python...)

As far as IFWW being a pan-gloranthan event? Forget it! It's not part of
Dara Happan culture, nor Malkioni, nor Kralorelan... It may have beem
"remembered" by cultures that the Theyalans contacted in the Dawn Age, but
it's more like a implanted memory than a true one.

IFWW being "pan-Gloranthan" is simply a relic of RQ-era books like CoP. I
don't think that even the Godlearners tried to ascribe the events of IFWW to
all gloranthan cultures.

YGWV, of course, but a Pan-Gloranthan IFWW isn't supported by the printed
word.

RR
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